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Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.
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rudeness
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Tom Robbins |
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wake-up
kings
rudeness
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Naguib Mahfouz |
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Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
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manners
socialising
rudeness
politeness
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Anne Brontë |
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I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
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happy
manners
rudeness
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Tamora Pierce |
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Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?' 'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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rudeness
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J.K. Rowling |
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To call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued; he had always wished himself to be truly honest, and always feared that he was not
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rudeness
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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"The way she sat now, leaning forward frowning, biting her pink bottom lip, her shirt dipping to reveal a hint of her cleavage... He wondered idly if he could get her to bend over a little farther... "Just what are you staring at, exactly?" Kadar snapped back to reality. "You. You've been thinking hard for the last five minutes. It's not good for you to strain your pretty little head like that. I'm waiting for the steam to shoot out of your ears to relieve the pressure on your brain." "Aha." Audrey glanced at Jack and George. "What you have here is a man who was caught gaping at my breasts, and now he's trying to cover it up with rudeness."
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kaldar
rudeness
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Ilona Andrews |
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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study-in-character
rudeness
old-age
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Yann Martel |
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...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.
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manners
rudeness
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Lynne Truss |
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Rudeness affected Margaret like a bitter taste in the mouth. It poisoned life. At times it is necessary, but woe to those who employ it without due need.
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life
unpleasant
howards-end
rude
manners
rudeness
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E.M. Forster |
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e3a987a
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I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.
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rudeness
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Sue Grafton |
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"Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?"
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rudeness
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Patrick McGrath |